Bhopal Bureau. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav on Tuesday felicitated the winners of the ‘Mere Sapnon Ka Bharat’ (My Dream India) painting and elocution competition at the Model School in TT Nagar, Bhopal, and viewed the artworks created by school students. The results of the competition were announced on October 6.
The competition was organised as part of the ‘Seva Sankalp Abhiyan’ being held to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday. According to Dainik Bhaskar’s Hindi edition, nearly 50 lakh students from classes 6 to 12 participated in the competition.
The Chief Minister viewed the artworks made by the children and interacted with the students, encouraging them to move ahead. He said the students had given shape to their imagination through speeches and paintings, and that their creativity was a strong step towards the resolve of a developed India.
Narsinghpur Girl Tops Painting, Ashoknagar Student First in Elocution
In the painting competition, a student from Narsinghpur district secured the first position, while students from Balaghat and Tikamgarh stood second and third. Two students from Raisen and Dindori received consolation prizes. In the elocution competition, a Class 7 student from Ashoknagar district stood first, with students from Dhar and Guna taking the second and third positions. The school education minister said the competition was organised at the district, block and state levels across more than 42,000 schools in the state.
(Representative image) — school students at a painting competition. (Photo: Kendriya Vidyalaya / s3waas.gov.in)
Dilapidated School Buildings to Be Replaced in Two Years: CM
Addressing the programme, the Chief Minister said more than 50 lakh students of over 60,000 government and private schools had participated in the Seva Sankalp Abhiyan. He announced that the government had resolved to replace all dilapidated school buildings with new ones within the next two years. Meritorious students are being provided free scooty, laptops, books and uniforms, long-pending promotions of teachers have been carried out, and fresh recruitment of teachers will also be done for better education.
2027 to Be Youth Year: 12 Medical Colleges, 12 Skill Universities
He said the state transport corporation’s bus service had resumed after 21 years and that Madhya Pradesh had become the state with the lowest unemployment rate. The state government will observe the year 2027 as Youth Year — 12 new medical colleges and 12 new skill universities will be opened, and a special PSC examination will be conducted alongside the annual PSC exam. The Amritkal youth generation, he said, would make India a developed nation by 2047.
